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Clemson football Coach Dabo Swinney said Wednesday afternoon that coaches and players alike are attempting to “keep normalcy” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“To this point, everyone has been fine,” Swinney said during a 42-minute video released by Clemson’s Athletic Communications Department. “We’ve been staying in daily communication (with players). We let everybody enjoy their (spring) break last week.

“We got back to work on Sunday as a staff; same thing with our team on Monday. We’re just trying to keep normalcy. The first thing was to make sure everyone was OK from a health and wellness standpoint, and we’re in a good spot right now.”

Swinney’s team kicked off spring practice on Feb. 26 and had completed nine of a scheduled 15 allowable practices prior to spring break, so most players had left campus when it was announced that online classes would be the norm for the remainder of the academic year.

“Fortunately for us we were already packed up and gone on break when all of this kind of happened that Thursday,” Swinney said. “Everybody was already kind of going home when they made the decision to extend the stay for a couple of weeks and then they came back afterwards and said we’re going to extended it all the way through the semester.

“To me that made sense because we’re really be bringing our guys back for really only like three weeks of class. If you can do two weeks online, you can do five. It was a good decision and from our perspective it has given us time to really get a good plan to get everybody acclimated on what we have to do.”

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